For her feature-length documentary Examined Life (2008), the director, author and activist Astra Taylor filmed among the most preeminent modern philosophers – together with Peter Singer, Slavoj Žižek, Martha Nussbaum and Cornel West – in city settings, discussing how their concepts could be utilized virtually within the fashionable world. This excerpt from the movie options the influential thinker Judith Butler and the author, artist and activist Sunaura Taylor, who’s Astra Taylor’s sister, taking a leisurely stroll by way of San Francisco. As they saunter down the road – Butler on her ft, and Taylor in a wheelchair – the pair interact in a riveting dialogue on the numerous limits, liberations and problems of present in a world the place our bodies have each numerous traits and shared primary wants. You may be taught extra about Examined Life, together with learn how to watch the movie in its entirety, here.
